The tail end of Apple's launch event for its new Apple TV Plus! service included an announcement that might be of interest to readers. It seems the partnership that...
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iPad Mini (2019) Features Pencil Support, A12 Bionic CPU, Costs $399 and Up
On Monday Apple announced the 5th-gen iPad Mini. The 2019 received a much needed specs boost; it now runs on the same A12 Bionic chip found in the new...
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Apple’s New iPad Air Costs $499, Sports a 10.5″ Screen
Apple disappointed analysts in their recent quarterly report, and today they responded in their usual fashion. They launched a new tablet model. The new iPad Air is a 10.5"...
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Artists Perform in Apple Stores, Get Paid in Merchandise
The following story is going to incite rage in certain circles. KQED reports that Apple doesn't pay artists that perform in its stores. Instead, it gives them AirPods. For...
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How to Add Books to Your iPad and iPhone Without Connecting to iTunes
Adding third-party ebooks to Apple Books or one of the other ebook apps on your iDevice used to be quite painful. You had to use one of Apple's proprietary...
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iPod Touch References Found in Apple Source Code – What, Again?
The hot Apple story this week is speculation that Apple might release a new iPod Tuch to replace the four-year-old model. From TechRadar: If newly unearthed code in iOS...
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Apple’s Latest Deals Raise Possibility of Apple Books App Coming to Android
For the longest time now optimists have been hoping that Apple would launch the iBooks app on other platforms. Given Apple's long-standing policy of only offering their services on...
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Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free
Apple kicked off a new ebook marketing push yesterday with a new affiliate toolbox, and as part of that marketing effort it has also released six audiobooks in partnership...
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Apple Releases New Apple Books Affiliate Marketing Toolbox
One of Amazon's great strengths in the book market and elsewhere is its affiliate program. It's just easier to use an Amazon affiliate link than to use one linking...
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Pages Now Publishes Directly to Apple Books
Apple is now promoting their word processing app with the pitch that you can use it to publish a book to Apple Books: Publish your book directly to Apple...
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Apple Invites Media to Event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Apple is holding another event in a couple weeks. This one will be located at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the 30th, and is expected to cover a...
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How to Lease a Virtual Mac Online to Upload eBooks to iBooks
Apple is notorious for the ridiculously pointless rule that if you want to sell ebooks on their platform, you have to use their app and their hardware to do...
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Apple to Launch Subscription Service – No Mention of eBooks
Apple is reportedly going to launch a content subscription service. There's no mention of ebooks, but it will include magazines, music, and the tv shows Apple is currently developing....
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What We Know About the New Apple Pages
When Apple launched a new ebook-focused version of Pages last week, some took it to mean that Apple was junking iBooks Author in favor of Pages. Others mistakenly saw...
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Apple Reader to Feature a 7.9″ E-ink Screen, Will Ship With Apple Library Subscription eBook Service
Over the past several months a number of sources have claimed that Apple was about to get serious about competing in the ebook market. I discounted the reports as...
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